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Today, when nobody was looking, The Deacon’s Bench clocked visitor number 500,000. I did a little Googling and found that’s almost the population of Las Vegas. Wow. Thank you all for making that possible — and for keeping this little engine chugging along, post by post, page by page, for just over a year now.…

Those remarkable words come from the pen of Joe Eszterhas, a man who previously used that pen to write movies like “Showgirls” and “Basic Instinct.” He has a new book out about his conversion, Crossbearer. And he just wrote a stirring essay about his conversion that was published in yesterday’s Washington Post’s On Faith section…

Late yesterday, the U.S. bishops released their weekly smackdown of a prominent American Catholic pol. And Washington’s Archbishop Wuerl added his own voice, in a letter to his priests: Our Catholic faith proclaims what is already written in our human hearts and recognized in our conscience – to kill innocent human life is wrong. The…

A little-known congressional race is starting to attract some attention, with some charging that anti-Catholicism is rearing its ugly head. Check out the Washington Post’s coverage: Democrats seeking to take over a Republican-held congressional seat in Northern Virginia are hammering GOP candidate Keith S. Fimian for his ties to a conservative Catholic organization, but Fimian…
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